by Joanna Pieters | Jan 27, 2018
Last night I went to the pub and learned to knit. I’ve never aspired to making woolly things. I recall some kind of sponsored knit when I was in the Brownies, and being faintly horrified to discover that being ‘sponsored by the inch’ meant by the...
by Joanna Pieters | Jan 26, 2018
The arguments in the judging room had been heated, bordering on rancorous. An American to win the prestigious Gran Premio at the 1964 Venice Bienniale, the youngest ever, and – whisper it – a pop artist? With silkscreens? The artist being honoured, Robert...
by Joanna Pieters | Jun 30, 2017
Things go wrong. We make mistakes. We make BIG mistakes. A relationship turns bitter, and you’ve lost a partner, a friend or a colleague. You’re made redundant, and all your self-esteem softens like a plastic spoon on the hot stove. Or the smaller things....
by Joanna Pieters | Jun 28, 2017
In the past few weeks I’ve been doing lots of waiting. Waiting for publishers and agents, mainly, who may or may not reply to me. I’m used to approaching guests to be interviewed for The Creative Life Show, and, earlier in my career, for various magazines. There, I...
by Joanna Pieters | Jun 22, 2017
Here’s a parenting fail story. A few weeks I took my six year old to a theme park for the first time. I’d checked out the rides and found the ‘family friendly’ ones to go on. That’s why when we arrived, full of enthusiasm, we headed for...
by Joanna Pieters | Feb 21, 2017
There’s been a video doing the rounds this week of Russian ice skater Evgeni Plushenko wowing the crowds with a routine to Tom Jones’ Sex Bomb from 2002. Plushenko is at the top of his game, a huge, dominant figure in men’s figure skating. Here it is:...
I'm Joanna Pieters and I've helped hundreds of professional creatives and creative leaders get their work known, sold and successful. I've run multiple, multi-million-dollar creative businesses and creating the ground-breaking psychometric assessment Vitally Productive. MBA, coach, violinist, writer, and host of The Creative Life Show podcast. Let's talk! 